[MPlayer-users] mencode perfect rip

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:41:08AM +0200, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:37:07PM -0400, Peter Gavin wrote:
> >>One question, though, is if this method is not supported, what's the
> >>recommended method to rip ac3 audio tracks off of a dvd?  mencoder -of
> >>rawaudio -oac copy?
> >
> >Yeah, I think so. In practice -dumpaudio works for mpeg container +
> >ac3 audio, but afaik it does not work for avi container + ac3 audio.
> >
> >Rich
> Wouldn't mplayer -ao pcm file.xyz work also?

No, that decodes the audio, which is exactly what you don't want to
do... The idea is to dump it, not decode it.

Rich